Obstruction
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Obstruction may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Obstruction Island, in Washington state
- Obstruction Islands, east of New Guinea
Medicine
[edit]- Obstructive jaundice
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Airway obstruction, a respiratory problem
- Bowel obstruction, a blockage of the intestines.
- Gastric outlet obstruction
- Distal intestinal obstruction syndrome
- Congenital lacrimal duct obstruction
- Bladder outlet obstruction
Politics and law
[edit]- Obstruction of justice, the crime of interfering with law enforcement
- Obstructionism, the practice of deliberately delaying or preventing a process or change, especially in politics
- Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006
Science and mathematics
[edit]- Obstruction set in forbidden graph characterizations, in the study of graph minors in graph theory
- Obstruction theory, in mathematics
- Propagation path obstruction
Sports
[edit]- Obstruction (baseball), when a fielder illegally hinders a baserunner
- Obstructing the field
See also
[edit]- The Five Obstructions, a 2003 film
- USS Obstructor, an American minelayer ship used in World War II